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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
Summertime … and the livin' is easy…at the
Morrisville Library. Fun-filled events for the young ones are
in motion and all kind of lazy-day books, audiobooks, videos,
magazines and cassettes are here to sign out and enjoy in your
leisure time.
On Tuesday, July 16th, the second session of the summer
Pre-school Story Hour series with Grandma B will begin at 10:30
a.m.. The series will continue on July 23rd, July 30th and August
6th. Bring in the little one for a delightful hour of entertainment.
On Thursday, July 18th, the library's Summer Reading Program
for children 5 - 12 will be held from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.; this
series will continue on July 25th, August 1st and August 8th.
The theme of this summer's program of fun, prizes, crafts,
and of course, reading is "Splish! Splash! Read!".
The huge Friends of the Morrisville Library Book Sale is
coming soon: be sure to put Saturday, July 27th on your calendar
now. The barn is full of great hard cover and paperback books
of all types, so plan on stocking up at bargain prices. Volunteers
to help prepare for the sale and to work at the sale are needed;
please sign up with Traci .
Thanks go out this week to the Periard family for continuously
supplying the library with paper goods and to Emily Marshall
for donating a subscription of American Heritage magazine to
the library. Congratulations to former library volunteers, Dan
Periard and Aaron Strong on their recent graduation from MECS.
Due to an increase in processing fees from the Mid-York
Library System, the Morrisville Library has been forced to increase
its overdue fine charges. As of July 1, 2002, our overdue fines
have increased as follows: Late books, magazines, audiobooks
and other items lent for three weeks will be charged at ten cents
a day per item (up from five cents a day per item). Late CD's
or other items lent for one week will be charged fifty cents
a day per item (up from 25 cents a day per item). Late video
cassettes or other items lent for two days will be charged one
dollar a day per item (up from 50 cents a day per item). There
will also be an added charge (rewind fee) of fifty cents per
item if a video cassette has to be rewound at the library.
Since the library's new budget will not go into effect until
January 2003, we are still looking for book adoptions to help
us keep up our collection until the new funding begins. Thanks
to Barb Richmond for adopting Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel
of George and Martha Washington by Mary Higgins Clark. Concentrating
on the personal rather than public life of Washington, this biography
uses Washington's retirement to Mount Vernon with his beloved
Patsy (Martha's nickname) as a focal point for looking back over
the lives of the first president and his wife. Thanks to Jan
Ghent for adopting Hard Eight, the newest in the Stephanie Plum
series by Janet Evanovich. In this one, Stephanie is off to check
up on her neighbor's granddaughter who has suddenly taken off
with her little girl, Annie, leaving behind a child custody bond
against the neighbor's house.
Other books waiting for adoption are Robert Ludlum's The
Paris Option, Rescue Ferrets at Sea by Robert Bach, Sunset in
St. Tropez by Danielle Steele, Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah,
A Fine and Bitter Snow by Dan Stabenow, Integrative Nutritional
Therapies for Cancer by Nagi Kumar, and a subscription to New
York Archives. Please consider adopting as a fine way to help
your local library. See Traci for details.
This week on the New Books cart, you can find Diane Mott
Davidson's Chopping Spree, her latest mystery about Colorado
caterer Goldy Schulz. In this one, Goldy finds the body of her
old friend, Barry Dean, who orchestrated the event she is catering.
Barry loved puzzles, and he left a succession of odd clues for
Goldy to follow as she tries to untangle his murder. James Patterson
and Robert DeJong's's new The Beach House is also newly arrived.
This slick thriller follows a young lawyer who investigates
the murder of his brother and patiently plots revenge on the
killers. Bob Greene's Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North
Platte Canteen a moving, detailed remembrance of North Platte,
Neb., and its residents who gathered to provide, at their own
expense, coffee, sandwiches, books, playing cards, and time to
the scared young men who rolled through by the trainload on their
way to World War II.
Cool off with a "cool" book this week and enjoy
summertime at your local library.
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